Sentence examples for modest offers from inspiring English sources

But the retailer has gone far beyond such modest offers.

Other authorities have retreated from their own modest offers.

He was tipped off about it by a friend in France and 'made a modest offer'.

He learned yesterday that he is still the Mets' interim shortstop, after Barry Larkin artfully finagled the Mets' modest offer into a three-year extension by the Reds.

The Mets cited the information as one of the reasons for their modest offer to Guerrero, the All-Star outfielder who wound up joining the Anaheim Angels over the weekend.

Because what Michael Foot always called the Forger's Gazette (for its role in the 1923 Zinoviev Letter affair) has deep pockets and every year it – or the Sunday Times – effortlessly outbids the Guardian's modest offer.

INSIDE PITCH The Mets inquired into GREG MADDUX's interest in playing for them this season, but they have decided against making even a modest offer because he is seeking too much money for their tastes.

Her use of the term "modest" offered the first clue to Ms. Kagan's judicial philosophy in her own words, and harks back to a term used by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who pledged "judicial modesty" during his confirmation hearings in 2005.

But if Gehrig had completed his studies at Columbia and turned down the scout Paul Krichell's modest offer of $1,500 to join the Yankees -- which would have pleased his adoring parents, who dreamed that their son would become an engineer or an architect -- would the world have ever heard of Henry Louis Gehrig?

So for example, if Steinberg had had another offer in his back pocket -- a modest offer of, say, $150,000 -- that weak alternative offer would have anchored his mind and the entire negotiation at a low level from the start.

This modest trattoria offers terrific Venetian dishes.